Alt key and numeric pad no longer give me special characters.????

[Guitarman]

I used to be able to place special characters in a Word 2002 document, by
simply holding down the ALT key, while typing various numbers on the numeric
key pad. This no longer works. What got changed? And, how may I get it to
work again?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Do you have NumLock engaged? For other methods, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm